The Washington critic., 1887-10-24
OUR STREaT RAILWAYS.
How 10 Reach All Portions Of tile
National Capital.


Tickets are sold by driver or conductor Of
oil cars for 20 cents, good un any line,
Washington and Georgetown Railroad Start,
at Georgetown, corner Of High street, down
Bridge street, across Rock creek, olst aiouf
Pennsylvania avenue, pasgiu, circle cpus
tHinirg Mills statue pi Washington; Cor
Cornn Gallery, Stnti, War and Navy Depart
ments; pfcsidents House, Lafayette sqinru.
containing NILS equestrian statue OF An.
drew jackson; Department Of Justice (halt
Ing at Fiit' onth street where transfers arr
given TO Fourteenth street Branch Fifteenth
street, past Riggs House and Treasury De
partmgnt; again down Pennsylvania avenuc
BY Nillard'sand other hotels, and through
thepfincipnl business portion OF the city,
crossing seventh street west at Center
Market (wherc transfers arc given To the
seventh Street Branch, going north toward
Boundary street or south to Potomac River,
past Botanical Gardens TO Naval Monument
here transfers are given TO branch running
tO Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, AS
Cendlng south side Of Capitol Hill, conttn.
uing along u street south TO Pennsylvania
avenue, turning into Eighth street east, past
the Marine Barracks 10 Nayy-Yard cato
Returning, same route and conditions.
Fourtcenth.street Branch starts at New
YORK avenue and Fifteenth street west, out
fourteenth street TO Boundary, passing
Franklin Square and Thomas Statue. Re
turning, same route, Transfers given to and
from main or Avenue line. Connects with
cars TO Mount Pleasant every half hour
Fare, cents additional.
Seventh'street Branch-Starts at Boundary
aud runs due south across the city along
Seventh street west, passing Mount Vernon
Square, Patent and POstOtllCes, Odd Fol
lows Hall, crossing Pennsylvania avenue
at Centre Market and City Postonice where
transfers are given to the main or Avenue
linel, continuing across the Mall, past the
Smithsonian Institution and National Mu-
seum, 10 the wharves OF the Mount Vernon.
Norfolk and other steamers and Alexandria
ferry. Returning same route.
Metropolitan Railwny-Leaylng Georgetown,
where II makes . circuit Of West High,
fayctte, Second, Dumbarton aud Mont
gomery streets, passing near Georget1wn
College, Academy of the Visitation, llieh
Service Reservoir, aud oak llil Cemetery,
over Rock Creek To T street north, thence
along Connecticut avenue, amidst the pala.
tial residences of the West End, including
that of the British minister; along seven.
teentli street west to II street north, Four
teenth street to +, passing Wiilard's and TIN
Ebbitt House, crossing Ninth street twhrrt
Branchl, past the Patent and Post Onices
TO FIFTH street, to Louisiana avenue, passing
Judiciary Square, city Hail. and Linculi
Monument; Indiana avenue To street, by
the Baltimore and Ohio depot to Delaware
avenue to u street north, to First street
east, thence along East Capitol street to Lin
coin Park. Returning. same route going
west, except along New Jersey avenue and
d street instead Of Indiana avenue.
Cars also leave the west front Of the State
War and Navy Departments at convenient
intervals, connecting WIN above line tlt
Seventeenth and II streets
| Ninth street Branch-starts at northern ter
minus Cf seventh street west where II con.
meets with Silver Springs Branchl, diyerglng
20 Ninth street, thence SOUTH passing
Mount Vernon square Masonic Temple
Patent and POstOiiicos at + street (whcrC
transfers are given TO main line east Or
| vest, thence TO Is street, passing Centre
| Market and Baltimore and Potomac Depot
Sixth street to Missouri avenue, TO Four
and'ahalf street, thence to the Arsena
gate and steamboat wharves Potomac
River. Returning by same route.
Silver Springs Branch-Starts from northern
terminus Of Ninth.street Branch, following
Seventh street road, past Howard Unlvcr
sity and SChuetZen Park, to entrance IA
grounds OF Soldiers Home Returning,
same route.
Columbia Iiailway-starts at Fifteenth street
west, southeast OF Treasury Department,
along New York avenue to its intersection
with Massachusetts avenue at Seventh
street; thence on Massachusetts avenue to
II street north, past the Government Print.
Ing Office to Boundary, and beginning of
Baltimore turnpike and Benning's Bridge
road. Returning, same route.
North Capitol and o Street Tor Belt Railroad
Starts from Maryland avenue and Four
and.n half street, thence east to First west,
north to q street, west TO Fourth street,
north TO 7 street, west to Eleventh street,
south to street north west to Fourteenth
street, south to Ohio avenue, east to
Twelfth street south TO Virginia avenue
and east to starting point. Returning, same
route, except passing east over o instead Of
i street.
This line also has short connecting roads run
ming to the Centre Market, Potomac river
steamboat wharyes, Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing, Washington Monument and
Eleventh and Boundary.
Anacostia misunderstanding from foot OF
Seventh street along NJ street south,
past navyyard gate. to Twelfth street east,
and over the Anncostia Bridge TO Union
town and the Government Hospital for the
Insane. Returning, same route. Transfers
t. and from Avenue Line or Seventh'strret
Branch Washington and Georgetown Rail-
road, 8 cents.
Herdic coaches are running from the Navy.
Yard via Pennsylvania avenue to Twenty
second and q streets northwest, Fare, 8
cents; six tickets for ~ cents. HOrsecar
tickets are also received as fare.
Herdlc cabs are run TO any part OF the city.
Fare 25 cents, within | mile; IS cents per
hour for one passenger; 81 per hour for
more than one. Stands, East Capitol front
and Pennsylvania avenue and seventh
street northwest.